White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued another hit on the Associated Press (AP) on X, labeling reports that the government fired yet more staff as “fake news”. In response to the news that “one employee said they were harassed on Facebook” by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “prior to being fired”,

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The wire service’s journalists have been banned from White House events since Feb. 11 over the organization’s use of the name Gulf of Mexico.

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit.

The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.